Hello friends,
This is a link I recommend you to bookmark.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in
a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this
list.:)
We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs:
* Andaman & Nicobar Islands
* Arunachal Pradesh
* Assam
* Chandigarh
* Chhattisgarh
* Dadra, Nagar & Haveli
* Daman & Diu
* Goa
* Himachal Pradesh
* Jammu & Kashmir
* Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai)
* Lakshadweep
* Manipur
* Meghalaya
* Mizoram
* Puducherry
* Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!)
* Nagaland
* Uttar Pradesh
* Uttarakhand
Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means
you too)!
Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for:
* Africa
* Australia
* Asia (other than India)
* Middle East
* North America
* South America
Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too.
May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic
language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as
comprehensible as possible.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Hello all,
I am happy to announce, chandigarh hackathon WCI2016, close with 7
application, which is useful to all community.
*1)* *WikiSpeak with native language :* (Hindi) (*Web Application* + *Android
Mobile application*).
*2)* *Edit Tamil Wiktionary **(Tamil community request)** :* - (*Android
application*)
*3)* *Audio file upload to WikiData (Punjabi community request) :* (*Android
application*)
*4) Wikipedia articles on google map :* find wikipedia articles on google
map (with latitude and longitude) as per city.
*5) OCR (Native Application) *: Convert scanned book copy to Indian
language text with google doc (Tested for Hindi and Malayalam).
*6) Communication platform[WebRTC] (Web Application)* : Community used this
to talk or conference (Audio/video web conferencing application)
*7) Notification (Event based)* : showing popup on event eg (If recent
changes happen, It will show popup which article was updated)
Thank you all participant. who participate in hackathon and deliver a big
success
*Note : I will share code, links and other details very shortly.*
Thank you
*Santosh Shingare.*
*User:cherishsantosh*
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Date: Sep 8, 2016 8:01 PM
Subject: Fwd: [Karai-GLUG] இராமசாமி தமிழ்க் கல்லூரி - கட்டற்ற மின்னூலகம்
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> நாம் ஏற்கனவே அழகப்பா பல்கலைக்கழகம் பொது நூலகத்தில் கட்டற்ற மின்னூலகம்
ஒன்றை ஏற்படுத்தினோம். அதை அறிந்த முனைவர். கீதா, உதவிப் பேராசியர்
> இராமசாமி தமிழ்க் கல்லூரியில் இவ்வமைப்பை ஏற்படுத்த எங்களை தொடர்பு கொண்டார்.
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> இராமசாமி தமிழ்க்கல்லூரி பற்றி ( கல்லூரி ஆண்டு புத்தகத்திலிருந்து )
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> உலகம் போற்றும் தமிழ்மொழியின் வளர்ச்சிக்குத் தொண்டாற்றும் எண்ணத்தில்
காரைக்குடியில் செந்தமிழ்ச்செல்வர் அமரர் இராம.பெரி. பெரியகருப்பன் அவர்களால்
26-01-1964-இல் இந்தியப் பல்தமிழ்க் கழகம் என்ற அமைப்பு தொடங்கப் பெற்றது.
இவ்வமைப்பு
> 18-06-1967 -இல் இராமசாமி தமிழ்க்கல்லூரி என்ற பெயரில் தமிழக அரசின்
அங்கீகாரத்துடன் மதுரைக் காமராசர் பல்கலைக் கழகத்தின் இணைவுக் கல்லூரியாக
நான்காண்டு தமிழ்ப்புலவர் பட்டயப் படிப்பைத் தொடங்கியது.
> பின்னர் நடுவணரசின் பல்கலைக்கழக நிதி நல்கைக் குழுவின் ஒப்புதலுடன்
கலைக்கல்லூரியாகத் தரம் உயர்த்தப் பெற்று மூன்றாண்டு பி.லிட், பட்டப் படிப்பை
1976 முதல் நடத்தி வருகிறது. காரைக்குடி அழகப்பா பல்கலைக் கழகத்தின் இணைவுக்
கல்லூரியாக 2003-ஆம் ஆண்டு முதல் செயல்பட்டு வருகிறது. 2016ஆம் ஆண்டில்
பல்கலைக் கழக நிதி நல்கைக்குழுவின் 12/B, 2F பதிவும் பெற்றுள்ளது.
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> எனவே நாங்கள் கீழ்க்கண்டவற்றை அங்கு அமைப்பது என்று முடிவு செய்தோம்.
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> விக்கிபீடியா - 70GB
> தமிழ் விக்கிபீடியா - 1.5 GB
> தமிழ் விக்சனரி - 200 MB
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> நாட்டுடமையாக்கப்பட்ட நூல்கள் 1500 + - 25GB
> Freetamilebooks 250+ - 5GB
> Project madurai 500+ - 900MB
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> நூலகத்தில் உள்ள கணினியில் குனு/லினக்ஸ் இயங்குதளத்துடன், kiwix, calibre
மென்பொருட்களை நிறுவினோம்.
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> நிறுவலின் போது முனைவர்.கீதா அவர்களுடன் உரையாட நேரம் கிடைத்தது. அவர்களிடம்
தமிழ் விக்கிபீடியா திட்டங்கள் பற்றியும் குறிப்பாக
> தமிழ் விக்சனரி, விக்கிமூலம், Freetamilebooks, மதுரை மின் இலக்கியத்
திட்டம் பற்றியும் அவர்களிடம் எடுத்துக் கூறினோம். இத்திட்டங்களைப் பற்றி
முன்பின் அறியாத அவர்கள்
> மிகவும் ஆர்வமுடன் கேட்டறிந்தார். இம்முயற்சி அங்குள்ள மாணவர்கள் மூலம்
மேற்கண்ட திட்டங்களுக்கு பங்களிக்க உதவும். வரும் வாரங்களில் அங்கு ஒரு
சந்திப்புக்கு ஏற்பாடு செய்ய உள்ளோம்.
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Dear friends,
First of all, apologies if this mail is not in your native language.
This to share with you all that we have published on the jobs section of the CIS website [0] for the position of Programme Officer of the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) programme. We would really appreciate if you can share with interested friends, colleagues and communities.
Please let us know if there is any kind of changes needed. We will love to address any concerns or inputs.
Best,
Subhashish
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The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is seeking applications from prospective candidates who identify themselves as female, for the position of Programme Officer (Communications) , to support its Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Programme.
The job application is open to women only because we feel that a woman communications person will contribute more towards bridging the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement by emphasising on gender-sensitive communication apart from contributing internally for bringing a gender balance in the team. The position is full time and will be based in CIS’ Bengaluru office. Programme Officer will work closely with CIS-A2K Team (hereinafter Team) and would report to the Executive Director/any supervisor in Team.
Position Summary:
As a Programme Officer, your job will be to support the Team’s larger goals — growth of Indian-language Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects (hereinafter Wikimedia projects), and the contributor communities (hereinafter Community). Your primary responsibility will be to support the Programme Associates — that spearhead our on-ground programmatic activities -- with regular communications with the community and the world outside.
Characteristics of the Programme Officer:
* High level of commitment: The Programme Officer should believe in the values of CIS and Wikimedia projects, exude enthusiasm for the mission and can powerfully embody and communicate the mission.
* Intellectual curiosity and flexibility: Must enjoy tackling difficult, ambiguous problems and able to incorporate new knowledge into how one approaches situations and generates solutions, loves learning from others while expanding intellectual horizons.
* Open and transparent: Have a high level of integrity and be comfortable working in a highly transparent fashion, open to input and feedback, a proactive and candid communicator who wants people to know what s/he is doing and isn't afraid to bring others in when things are off-track or when you need help and should able to handle criticism in a mature fashion.
* Community builder: It is essential that the Programme Officer sees herself/himself as a partner to and supporter of the Wikimedians who have and will continue to be the leaders in building the Wikimedia projects. The Programme Officer must be willing and able to work with a diverse array of people, many of whom come from non-traditional backgrounds and have a fervent commitment to Wikimedia movement’s community-led nature.
* Strong cultural competency: Able to navigate in a global movement and on a global team in addition to navigating the complexity of India.
* Partnership developer: Able to initiate, negotiate and operate partnerships that advance the Wikimedia mission in Indic languages and English (as relevant to India) with a wide range of institutions across the public, NGO, universities, philanthropic and private sector.
* Willing to travel: The Programme Officer must regularly travel within India to engage with Wikimedia communities and partner with institutions.
Responsibilities:
* You will be responsible for the overall communications of Team that include storytelling in the form of interviews, blogs, opinion pieces in newspaper/other platforms, regular coverage in both Indian language and English media, and anything beyond.
* You will be exploring widely from conventional to new media to spread the stories of the hundreds and thousands of volunteers that make the Indian-language Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects such great knowledge repositories.
* Creating original stories of challenges and learning, and successes of Wikimedia community in general and the ones that we closely work with in particular.
* Function as an interface between A2K team and the community, and help the team better work collaboratively with the community.
* Sharing the work of the community and A2k team in a regular basis in the monthly newsletters and other places.
* Providing training on effective communications to the communities in a need basis, and supporting them to independently tell their own stories in their own languages.
* Announcement of programmatic activities in the form of announcements, blogs and reports, and microblogging (social media, etc.).
* Interviewing Wikimedians under the ambit of the WikipediansSpeak [*] project and beyond, and share the story of the Wikimedia community widely in the media.
Required Skills:
* Graduate or masters in journalism/other media studies, law, or any other discipline with at least two-three years of professional experience with a strong track record of success in high performance organisations, preferably in non-profits.
* Experience could be during studies or after, primarily in blogging, writing organisation reports, managing social media for organisations, interviewing and covering people’s stories in mainstream media.
* Prior experience of working in a collaborative community, preferably and open one like Wikipedia and in online.
* Good understanding of the basics of organisational programme design and management.
* Strong understanding of the Internet and the forces that underpin the success of Wikipedia. Active participation as a Wikimedia volunteer would be an asset, though not a prerequisite (must be prepared to demonstrate knowledge of how Wikipedia works in interviews).
* Experience working in a global, multicultural and diverse team environment will be preferred.
* Must be fluent in English and at least in one Indian language.
* A good understanding of the cultural and knowledge universe of the Indian language communities.
* Ability to integrate and understand the complexity of the Indian language communities.
Pluses:
* Support India-focused initiatives to improve quality of India-relevant content and number of editors on Indian-language Wikimedia projects.
* Support the growth of Indian-language Wikimedia communities and projects by designing and implementing community collaborations and partnerships projects – detailing rationale, aim and objective, execution, evaluation, timeline, resource investment, etc.
* Spearhead CIS-A2K’s pilot projects.Identify institutions/groups that have ready-made content/archived material and aggregate available material in respective languages.
* Create a network of state institutions, university departments, non-government organisations, academics, artists, researchers and Wikipedia community members that will work towards creating a repository of knowledge on specific themes by using Wikimedia projects as a platform.
* Conduct initial meetings with the principal investigators from each of the shortlisted institutions and share project ideas.
* Facilitate Wikimedia community involvement with the core network of institutions and principal investigators to collaboratively participate on specific content/area modules.
* Create social media platforms for visibility of these projects and facilitate need-based technical and online support.
* Conduct a series of Wikimedia outreach sessions for various nodes within the network.
* Conduct periodic monitoring and evaluation of the pilot projects in progress.
* Generate and document lessons from programme activities that can inform the work of Indian communities and similar programmes in other countries.
* Provide ad hoc support to the Wikipedia community on all aspects of Indian languages as may be deemed necessary.
Context of the CIS-A2K programme:
As an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and Wikipedia’s sister project, we design and implement different projects with an aim to create high quality content and cultivate new contributors to Wikimedia projects. The projects will be premised on themes and seek to create a multilingual repository of knowledge using Wikimedia projects as a knowledge platform. You are encouraged to deeply engage with the CIS-A2K work plan before making the application. You will work cohesively with the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia India Chapter to meet specific goals of each language community in India. You will be a part of a small team of 5 to 10 doing high visibility and high impact work.
Please note that we, at CIS, do not have any distinction,exclusion, or preference that is based on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction, social origin, which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity and treatment in employment. (adapted from Declaration ILO Geneva [3])
Location: The position is based out of the CIS’s Bangalore office.
Remuneration: Compensation structure will be determined by the level of expertise, experience and current remuneration.
To apply, please send your resume along with a covering letter and at least three references to Tanveer Hasan (tanveer(a)cis-india.org) by October 20, 2016.
Notes:
0. http://cis-india.org/jobs/cis-a2k-programme-officer
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter
2. WikipediansSpeak is an initiative to bring the voices of Wikipedians to the world and include interviews in various media, both multimedia and text-based narratives and beyond. More in the project page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak>
3. http://www.ilo.org/public/portugue/region/eurpro/lisbon/pdf/agender_jun06.p…
Thanks,
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@subhapa / https://cis-india.org
Hello!
Please join us *this evening Indian time*[1] for a review of New Readers
research findings <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers>. Come learn
about internet users in Mexico, India, and Nigeria and how they search for
information online.
We will share discoveries from more than 5 months of research, including
phone surveys in 13 languages, and more than 150 interviews.
Specifically we will discuss:
- Information seeking habits
- Internet use, devices, and general knowledge patterns
- Wikipedia awareness and usage
- User personas developed from findings
- Potential next steps and opportunities to better serve New Readers in
Asia, Africa, and Latin America
More details on the project can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers
See you at 9:30 PM IST![1]
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYymUXRzpU4
Blue Jeans link: https://bluejeans.com/354618595
best,
Joe Sutherland
Wikimedia Foundation
[1] This time in your timezone:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160928T09&p1=22…
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*Joe Sutherland*
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
More than 20000 plant photos to Wikimedia Commons:
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We know Sri. Dinesh Valke <https://www.facebook.com/dinesh.valke> is an
ardent nature lover. He has been taking photos of plants for the last 12
years. Once he finds the correct identification he uploads it to Flickr. He
is on a mission to find out the local name of the species in various
languages. A continuous effort spanning all these years. As we know Flickr
is a private company owned by Yahoo. It can decide the fate of images
stored in its servers. Due to license restrictions nobody would be saving
it to other places. Now Sri. Valke ji has decided that all his life long
efforts are not a thing to be decided by a company's policy in the US. He
has changed the licenses and ALL his plant photos, more than 20000, and ALL
of them are now available at Wikimedia Commons which will eventually be
used in Wikipedia articles in around 300 languages. Since Wikipedia is free
anyone can download and store the images which means scores of Universities
and Scholars will be storing them, in effect they are safe and nothing can
destroy them. via Vinaya Raj V R <https://www.facebook.com/vinayrajvr>
<https://www.facebook.com/vinayrajvr>
Thanks Sreejith Kulamgarath
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sreejithk2000> for the helps in
wikimedia commons. You can see the images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Dinesh+Valke
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sreejithk2000>
Manoj Karingamadathil
www.manojkmohan.com
Hello all,
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus recently hosted a workshop on Wikipedia
editing for the English Wikipedia. About 20-30 new accounts were registered
during this session and relevant basics from each topic were covered.
The full overview and images can be found at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/BPHC_Workshop_1
Regards,
Soni
User:Soni, English Wikipedia
